User Comments - jlswedberg
jlswedberg
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hunan
May 12, 2008, 02:01 PMAdd me to the list of people who are really excited about this new series. Thanks, guys! I am a hungry traveler!
Posted on: Finding One's seat
March 31, 2008, 02:38 AMI wondered the same thing, crazykitty and changye!
Posted on: Cheering
March 23, 2008, 08:20 PMI thought that saying 你在干吗？ was less rude than just saying 干吗?
Posted on: Knitting a Scarf
March 20, 2008, 03:22 PMCan I just say that Web 2.0 is the most marvelous thing, because Lunetta found me over there in, like, 30 seconds. :-D C'mon out, you other Ravelers...
Posted on: Knitting a Scarf
March 20, 2008, 02:58 PMI'm so excited! I'm a constant, obsessive knitter (I'm rhubarb3point14 on Ravelry, you other knitters ;-)), so when I saw this lesson, it was like my two biggest hobbies merging at long last. I shouted out to my husband, "There's a ChinesePod lesson about knitting!" He responded, "There's a rift in the space-time continuum!"
Posted on: Thanksgiving
November 25, 2007, 06:09 PMLate to the party--I was too busy with the holiday to get to the lesson on time! As a person who raises 火鸡, I would like to help dispel the idea that they are comparatively tasteless birds! I wish I could send the people of China a few of our heirloom Bourbon Red turkeys for sampling. Mmmmmmm. Unfortunately, we don't have any extras because right before Thanksgiving, a 熊 smashed into our turkey pens and mauled a lot of the poor 火鸡. That was a very unhappy morning. We were lucky we could save a "scratch and dent" bird for the holiday!
Posted on: Forget It
November 16, 2007, 04:42 AM远足 yuan3zu2, huh? I'll try it out. Thanks! The area is hilly, but I don't think it counts as a 山. ;-)
Posted on: Forget It
November 15, 2007, 02:02 PMThis is a perfect lesson for me! My Chinese tutor is also my hiking partner. Before, I only knew 散步. Now, I actually have the vocab.
Posted on: How is business?
November 07, 2007, 03:26 PMalwingate, for what it's worth, the expansion exercises really help me to start to get up to normal conversational speed. The way I do them is, I mouse over the sentence slowly, word by word, and pronounce it. Then I use the recording to check my pronunciation. Sometimes it takes several times through to bring my version in line with Cpod's, but I get there! Often I will stop and look up characters in my dictionaries and reference books. What I learn helps me remember the words better. This part of the lesson is definitely way more tedious than the rest, but I'd say it helps me the most because I really have to work for it.
Posted on: Characters in the Desert and Chinese Kitchens
July 02, 2008, 03:21 PMWhat about refrigerators? Are they small ones, as in Europe, or are they completely omitted on the assumption that you'll buy your fresh food daily?
I have a Zojirushi rice cooker, a very simple one, that is the light of my life. Dunno what I ever did without one. I suspect it uses a lot fewer resources than turning on a burner, plus it does its thing without me having to worry about it.